Robert Ross Parker (writer/performer)

Robert is the co-artistic director of the Obie winning Vampire Cowboys with Qui Nguyen. For Vampire Cowboys he has directed Vampire Cowboy Trilogy, A Beginner’s Guide to Deicide, Living Dead in Denmark, Men of Steel, Fight Girl/Battle World, Soul Samurai, Alice in Slasherland, and The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G. Upcoming VC projects include Geek by Crystal Skillman and War is F**king Awesome by Nguyen. For the VC Saturday Night Saloon series he wrote Jimmy Starshooter Must Get Laid, and Radio Monster Theatre: The Further Adventures of Henry and Victor.

Other recent directing credits include She Kills Monsters (The Flea) Goodbye Cruel World (also adapter, Roundtable Ensemble) Hamlet{solo}(Edinburgh Fringe and Solo Nova at PS 122), and numerous projects for Ensemble Studio Theatre where he is a member.

As an actor, Robert played the title role in The Flying Machine’s Frankenstein at Soho Rep, and on tour, and played the March Hare in their production of Alice in Wonderland. From 2007-2011 he was the editor of The Dramatist, the Journal of the Dramatists Guild of America. MFA Ohio University.